Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Thank goodness!!! I just finished Nicholson Baker’s book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper and guess what: paper, even the most acidified paper, is much more durable than I was led to imagine. Some of the jewels of a William Burroughs…
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The NYPL Acquisition of the Burroughs Archive
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For those of you chomping at the bit to sneak a peek at the Burroughs Archive in the Berg Collection, do not book your ticket to New York just yet. The archive is massive and could take awhile to organize and to catalog….